UPDATE: Though police had initially charged Sinu Kunjumon, 17, with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, prosecutors didn't go forward with those charges, after investigators determined that he was simply present at the stabbing

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A high schooler who cut classes to fight with two fellow students ended up stabbed with a box cutter at the Great Kills train station Thursday morning, according to police and the teen's friends, who accompanied him to the fight.

Police have arrested two teenage suspects, Sinu Kunjumon, 17, of Spartan Avenue in Mariners Harbor, and a 14-year-old whose name is being withheld because of his age, according to an NYPD spokesman.

The victim, a 15-year-old male, was treated at the scene, then taken to Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, via ambulance, according to police. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

The incident took place at about 11:10 a.m. on the steps of the train platform, which is located on Giffords Lane near Amboy Road. The victim and his friends, who attend Susan E. Wagner High School, debarked the s54 bus, as did the two suspects, the teen's friends told the Advance.

One of the suspects extended his hand, asking for a handshake, and according to one of the teen's friends, who identified himself only as Josh, "He approaches him with the knife in his pocket in his hand, and then he goes to shake his hand, and then he just stabbed him two times. And I pushed him off."

Though the teens admitted they all should have been in school, Josh said, "I'm glad I wasn't. If I was in school, what would have happened?"

Janet Rosa, who was in the neighborhood for a tattoo appointment, said she rushed to the 15-year-old's aid after the stabbing.

"I'm standing right here. I hear the girls saying, 'Oh my God, they're cutting him!' So I went into mommy mode. I went to the store, and I bought a roll of paper towels," she said. She raised the teen's arms, and applied pressure on his wounds in his abdomen with the paper towels until police and emergency personnel arrived.

As the scene unfolded, Ms. Rosa said she learned from some of the teens around her -- and later the boy's father, who arrived upon hearing what happened -- that the victim might have been bullied.

"The father was saying that those are the kids that bullied my son every day," she said.

The area surrounding the Great Kills train station has been a focal point for teenagers intent on causing trouble, according to merchants in the area.

"I see a lot of kids running around in the neighborhood," said Raheel Asif, who works in the nearby Grand Delfino Bagels & Deli. "It's 12 o'clock. Why aren't these kids in school? Why's nobody checking them?"

Another business owner, who declined to give her name, said she had to lock the door to her store about two weeks ago during a broad-daylight melee between teens.

Two years ago, the corner of Amboy and Giffords became the focal point for a major drug sweep -- the now-defunct Nel Boy Bagels was selling the prescription painkiller oxycodone for $20 a pill, and when police raided the place, they found a "drug den" with 100 glassine bags of heroin, 30 syringes, and several young Staten Islanders inside.